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DECC minister Baroness Verma (pictured) pledged to do so in a House of Lords debate on the Energy Bill yesterday. The Tory peer said government will do what is necessary “to include emissions from interconnection and non-UK low-carbon sources”.

Verma was responding to a “probing amendment” moved in the Lords Energy Bill committee by Labour’s Baroness Worthington to secure Westminster’s support for imports such as Greenwire.

Worthington said: “Greenwire… would potentially be a good and significant source of low-carbon electricity. It would be a shame if that were then not to count towards our carbon intensity target.

“After all, it would be UK suppliers and consumers who were paying for it.”